Pacific Manuscripts Bureau titles documenting Fiji (Church records)

Compiled February 2017 Short titles and some notes only. See PMB on-line database catalogue at http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/ for information sheets and detailed reel lists of documents.

Manuscript Titles

AU PMB MS 26 Title: Miscellaneous papers on Fiji - letters, notes, book draft Date(s): 1865 - 1868 (Creation) Fison, Rev. Lorimer Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Fison (1832-1907) a university-educated man, with a keen interest in anthropology, was born in Suffolk, England. He migrated to Australia in 1856, joined the Methodist Church, and went to Fiji as a missionary in 1864. He remained in Fiji until 1884, when he returned to Australia and became editor of the Spectator, a Melbourne church paper. Copies of letters, notes on Fiji customs and personalities, sketches of life in Fiji, and an early draft of Fison's book Tales of Old Fiji (London, 1907). The wording of some of the tales, as recorded in these papers, has been much worked over and occasionally differs in its final form from that in the published versions.

AU PMB MS 112 Title: Articles relating to the Pacific Islands Date(s): 1868 - 1921 (Vols. 3-56) (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The articles mainly concern Hawaii, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Pitcairn Island and Fiji. The ‘Juvenile Instructor’ was published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City. For other publications of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints see also PMB 110 for ‘Improvement Era’ and PMB 113 for ‘Contributor’.

AU PMB MS 142 Title: Correspondence with LMS agent, Suva Date(s): 1907 - 1946 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm. Digital PDF. Description: These documents originally formed part of the archives of the Samoan District Committee and later Samoan District Council of the London Missionary Society, and were formerly held at Malua, Western Samoa. The Samoan district Committee was replaced by the Council in 1928. Correspondence of the Samoan District of the LMS with the LMS agent, Suva (Fiji). Also listed as part of PMB MS 1278.

AU PMB MS 150 Title: Diary

2

Date(s): October 1984 - August 1910 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Moody was a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Samoa in 1894-98 and 1908-10. The diary contains an account of Moody's work in Samoa from October 1894 to May 1898 and from April 1908 to August 1910. In the interim years there is an account of his life in Arizona. The diary also contains some information on Fiji in 1908.

AU PMB MS 155 Title: Mission correspondence and news items Date(s): 1894 - 1949 (Creation) Methodist Mission, Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Letters from Fijian missionaries and other news items concerning them copied from the Methodist Fiji-language journal Ai Tukutuku Vakalotu.

AU PMB MS 156 Title: Memoirs Date(s): 1854 -1925 (Creation) McHugh Winifred Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Mrs McHugh, d.1969, was a daughter of the Rev. A.J. Small, a Methodist missionary to Fiji. There are two documents, both by Mrs McHugh. The first is an 89pp. typescript entitled 'Memoirs of Rev. A.J. Small, Fiji, 1879-1925', which was produced in a roneoed edition of eight copies. The other, a typescript of eight pages, is entitled 'Some Reminiscences'. It bears the pen-name 'Gone ni Bua' and refers to the period 1891-1925.

AU PMB MS 157 Title: A History of the Church in its Rotuman setting - an introductory outline Date(s): 1971 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: This document was a thesis submitted by Langi Jioni to the Faculty of the Pacific Theological College, Suva, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Divinity, October 1971. Chapter outline: Chapter 1: Rotuma before European Contact Chapter 2: European Contacts Chapter 3: Conversion of Rotuma Chapter 4: The Wars of Religion Chapter 5: The Peace Chapter 6: The Present Day Situation

AU PMB MS 158 Title: Diary, notes, letters, records Date(s): 1882 - 1967 (Creation) Churchward Rev. Dr C.M. Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Dr Churchward (1888-1968) was a noted linguist. As a Methodist missionary at Rotuma in the 1930s, he prepared a Rotuman Grammar and Dictionary, which was published in 1940. He also published A New Fijian Grammar (1941) and an English-Tongan dictionary. He revised the Rotuman New Testament (1930) and the Tongan New Testament (1959-61) and was working on the Old Testament in Rotuman at the time of his death in Suva. The papers comprise: Diary of a visit to Rotuma, 1931; Notes on dealings with Resident Commissioner, Rotuma, 1931; Subsidiary documents re above; Rotuma letters, 1932-37; Rotuman beliefs and customs; Memorandum re Rotuma Cession Day celebrations, 1967; Copy of Ao Fo'ou, 12/5/67; Records of the Land Titles Commission, Rotuma, 1882-1883; Notes on Rotuman history and Rotuma Circuit (Methodist Mission) reports, 1921, 1924-28;

3

Account by Mesulama Titifanua (Rotuman missionary) of sojourn in New Britain, 1927-28; Notes on conversation with Takalaigau, 1934.

AU PMB MS 159 Title: Historical accounts of Rotuma Date(s): 1868 - 1949 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The accounts, by various authors, are as follows: 1) 'Histoire de Rotuma' by Fr Joseph Trouillet, SM. This is in three exercise books covering the periods: a. 'Depuis l'origine des temps fabuleux jusqu'au retour des Missionaires Catholiques, l'an 1868'. b. 'Depuis le retour des Catholiques en 1868 jusqua l'annexion en Juin 1881'. c. 'Depuis Juin 1881-la fin de 1890'. 2) The foregoing 'Histoire de Rotuma' contained in two exercise books labelled 'Ier Cahier' and 'II Cahier'. 3) A journal kept on Rotuma from 1868 to 1871 by Fr L. Dezest, SM (one exercise book labelled 'Journal, Ier Cahier'). 4) A journal kept on Rotuma from 1868 to 1890 first by Fr Dezest, then by Fr Trouillet. (Three exercise books labelled: 'Journal II Cahier,' 'Journal III Cahier' and 'Journal IV Cahier'). 5) An account of Rotuma in about 1824 in Domeny de Rienzi's 'Oceanie', translated by Dr Hugh Macdonald (typescript). [Number ‘6)’ missing from record] 7) An account entitled 'La Premiere Soeur Missionaire a Rotuma' (roneoed). 8) 'Historique de la Station St Michel, Upu, Rotuma', dated 7 April 1949, and signed by L. Soubeyran. 9) 'Historique de la Station Notre Dame des Victoires, Sumi, Rotuma', dated 28 April 1949. 10) Rotuma Brothers' School - Extracts from Council Decisions, 1901-08. 11) Newspaper clippings, 1917, 1932. An index to manuscript material in the Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Office, Suva, Fiji (reels 159/160; 428/429 and 432-468) was published in the Bureau's newsletter Pambu April-June 1972: 27, pp. 17-20 and is available from the Bureau on request

AU PMB MS 160 Title: Correspondence with missionaries at Rotuma Date(s): 1868 - 1888 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Letters to Catholic missionaries at Rotuma from Bishops Bataillon, Elloy and Lamaze and Father V-F. Poupinel, written from Apia, Tonga, Wallis, Futuna, Sydney and France. A typed summary in English of the contents of each letter is given at the beginning of the film.

AU PMB MS 428 Title: Date(s): Documents and correspondence relating to mission stations at Rotuma Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The documents and correspondence are in four folders and appear to have been sorted arbitrarily. The contents of the folders cover the following periods: 1. 1868-1930 (principally land acquisition, Catholic-Wesleyan rivalry and Catholic education). 2. 1871-87 (including the consequences of British annexation for the Catholic Church in Rotuma). 3. 1882-1930 (land matters) 4. 1878-1902. An index to material copied in the Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Office, Suva, was published in the Bureau's newsletter Pambu April-June 1972:27, pp. 17-20 and is available on request from the Bureau. See also PMB 159/160; 432-46

AU PMB MS 429 Title: Extracts from correspondence with mission stations at Rotuma Date(s): 1846 - 1889 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Typed extracts from correspondence and documents, principally: Letter from Fr Verne, first Catholic missionary to Rotuma, 1846 (from Bulletin de la Societe d'Oceanie 12).

4

Early History of the Catholic Church in Oceania by Jean Baptiste Pompallier, Vicar Apostolic of Western Oceania. Circular from Mgr Lamaze to all missionaries of Central and Western Oceania, 1879. L'Histoire de l'Oceanie Centrale by priests of the Vicariat under Mgr Bataillon. Correspondence dated 1872-1874, 1876-1879, 1882, 1889 regarding Catholic-Wesleyan conflict in Rotuma. Full text of letter from Fr Verne describing his visit to Rotuma in 1847 and the establishment of a Catholic mission there. Correspondence regarding the early Catholic mission in Rotuma and the progress of Catholicism there. NOTE: see PMB 428 for information on an index to this material.

AU PMB MS 430 Title: School logbooks Date(s): 1924 - 1939; 1952 - 1970 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: All Saints School, Labasa, was established by the Anglican Mission, Fiji, c.1904 The logbooks are chronicles of the notable events in the day-to-day affairs of the school.

AU PMB MS 432 Title: Correspondence with government re education Date(s): 1899 - 1912; 1920 - 1936 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: An index to material copied in the Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Office, Suva, was published in the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, April-June 1972:27, pp.17-20 and is available on request from the Bureau. Correspondence with government regarding education. See also PMB 159/160 and 428/429.

AU PMB MS 433 Title: Correspondence with French Consulate-General, Sydney Date(s): 1919 1927 - 1929 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. Correspondence with French Consulate-General, Sydney

AU PMB MS 434 Title: Correspondence with government Date(s): 1856 - 1890 1999 - 1900 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. Correspondence (1856-90) includes conference and ratification of peace between Solevu and Nadi - 1856; religious freedom for Catholics - 1858; enquiry into complaints re Catholic Chief's resistance to Catholicism; extract from minutes of Chiefs at Bau re Catholic resistance to Wesleyan churches; letters from the Colonial Secretary re various land applications and the Teachers' Training School; various letters from Bishop Vidal. Correspondence (1899-1900) includes letters re Catholics being required to work on Wesleyan building projects and Chiefs' complaints re the use of indigenous labour on Catholic mission stations. See also PMB 436 for correspondence with Government for the years 1891-98; and PMB 435 for the years 1901-13 and 1916-30.

AU PMB MS 435 Title: Correspondence with government Date(s): 1901 - 13 1916 - 1930 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. Correspondence with government. Please see also PMB 434 and 436

AU PMB MS 436 Title: Correspondence with government Date(s): 1891 - 1898 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji

5

Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. Correspondence with government. Includes letters regarding the depopulation of Pacific islands following European colonisation, with particular reference to Fiji (1891-92). Please see also PMB 434/435

AU PMB MS 437 Title: La petite histoire a Fiji' Date(s): c.1937 Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The author, who is unknown, returned to France in 1929. See also PMB 432. A typescript of 78 pages - a history of the Catholic Church in Fiji (1846 - 1937).

AU PMB MS 438 Title: Correspondence of Bishop C.J. Nicolas, Sm Date(s): c.1937 Date(s): 1919 - 1930 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432 The correspondence is in seven files: 1. Miscellaneous, 1919-30 2. Father L.L. Dubois, SM, 1921-30 3. Mission Station, Wairiki, 1922-30 4. Mission Station, Vanuakula, 1924-30 5. Mission Station, Loreto, 1930 6. Mission Station, Nabala, 1930 7. Procure, Sydney, 1925-30

AU PMB MS 439 Title: Notes on the anthropology, myths, legends, ornithology and Catholic Missions of Fiji Date(s): c.1891-1925 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. The papers are: 1. 'Quelques Notes sur Fiji, les Fijiens et la Religion Catholique a Fiji' 2. 'Conference sur les Meke fidjiens', by Father C.M. Flaus, SM 3. 'La Culte des Morts a Fiji a l'Ouest et a l'Interieur', by Father J. de Marzan, SM 4. Notes on the Roman Catholic Mission in Fiji, 1925, by Father J. Oreve, SM 5. 'Superstitions Rewiennes', 1891, by E.R. (i.e. Father E. Rougier, SM) 6. Notes on 'Le Deluge ... aux Fijis', by Father J. de Marzan, SM 7. 'Noms des Oiseaux ... de Namosi', by Father J.L. Guinard, SM

AU PMB MS 440 Title: Historical notes on the Catholic Mission of Wairiki, Taveuni Date(s): 1922 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The notes were compiled by Father F. Terrien, SM (1851-1922) who directed the Wairiki mission from 1895 to 1922. His notes were translated and slightly amplified by B.A.M., Suva, 1943. See also PMB 432. Historical notes on the Catholic Mission of Wairiki, Taveuni (1844-1922).

AU PMB MS 441 Title: Correspondence relating to Father Emmanual Rougier, SM Date(s): 1906 - 1907 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Father Rougier (1864-1932) was born in France; he was ordained in the Society of Mary in 1888, and he went to Fiji soon afterwards as a Roman Catholic missionary. He acquired a large sum of money in what was known as the Cecile Affair (1906-7), and soon afterwards left Fiji and acquired plantation interests

6

at Fanning, Washington and Christmas Islands. He resided in Tahiti and became a prominent figure there in the business and cultural worlds, being known as Abbe Rougier. (For a brief biography, see Patrick O'Reilly and Raoul Tessier, Tahitiens, Paris, 1962, pp.410-11). See also PMB 432 Correspondence relating to Father Rougier's involvement in the Cecile Affair and the disciplinary action taken against him.

AU PMB MS 442 Title: Notes and reports on the Petits Freres Date(s): c.1919 - 1923 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The Petits Freres comprised an order of Fijian lay brothers, founded by Mgr Vidal in 1890 to assist in teaching at mission schools and in the maintenance of mission property. See also PMB 432 Most of the reports are undated, but several are dated 1919 and one, 1923.

AU PMB MS 443 Title: Letters from Superior-General, Society of Mary Date(s): 1888 - 1928 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. Letters from Superior-General, Society of Mary

AU PMB MS 444 Title: General letters to Bishop Julian Vidal, SM Date(s): 1887 - 1917 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. General letters to Biship J. Vidal, SM. At the end of the reel are private letters from Government House, 1897-1907.

AU PMB MS 445 Title: Correspondence of Bishop Julian Vidal, SM, with Father C.J. Nicolas, SM, and other priests Date(s): 1893 - 1920 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. Correspondence of Bishop Julian Vidal, SM with Fr Nicolas SM and other priests.

AU PMB MS 446 Title: Extracts from the Fiji Times Date(s): 1869 - 1883 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. The extracts, written in a thick notebook, relate mainly to religious matters in Fiji, both Wesleyan and Catholic. The name of the compiler is not indicated.

AU PMB MS 447 Title: Recent development of the Catholic Church in the Southwest Pacific Date(s): 1971 (Creation) Pearce Archbishop George Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. An address given to the Pacific Theological College, Suva, on 18 May 1971.

AU PMB MS 448 Title: Correspondence re leper asylum, Makogai, and sundry related papers Date(s): 1908 - 1930 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 2 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. Correspondence regarding Leper Asylum, Makogai and related papers. Reel 2 begins at correspondence for 1919.

AU PMB MS 449 Title: Rules for, and reports on, catechists

7

Date(s): 1908 - 1930 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. Rules for catechists, 1890; and reports on catechists, 1919

AU PMB MS 450 Title: Constitution, correspondence with Bishop C.J. Nicolas, Sm Date(s): 1923 - 1929 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. Constitution and Rules for the Government of the Catholic Young Mens' Society of Fiji, 15 February 1923 and correspondence with Bishop C.J. Nicolas, SM, 1923-29.

AU PMB MS 451 Title: ‘Essai de Grammaire' and 'Dictionnaire Fidjien-Francais' Date(s): 1854 (Creation) Journals of the Melanesian Mission Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: These works are believed to have been compiled by either Father C. Mathieu, SM, or Father P. Michel, SM, of the Roman Catholic Mission, Fiji. A clue to the author's identity is a notation on the last page of the grammar which reads, 'faite a Rewa 1854'. Both Father Mathieu and Father Michel were stationed at Rewa from 1852 and were there in 1854. Father Mathieu died in Sydney, NSW, in 1872. Father Michel died in New Zealand in 1887. See also PMB 432. Father Michel died in New Zealand in 1887. See also PMB 432

AU PMB MS 452 Title: Histoires de mission, pour enfants' Date(s): 1901-1961 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Father Guinard spent sixty years in Fiji as a priest of the Roman Catholic Mission. He arrived in January 1901 and died in 1961. Forty-two years of his service were spent at Namosi. See also PMB 432 The 'Histoires de Mission, pour enfants', written in a 250-page minute book, relate events in Father Guinard's career and observations on many aspects of life in Fiji. A typewritten version of Father Guinard's manuscript appears at the end of the microfilm.

AU PMB MS 453 Title: Brief histories of the Mission and its missionaries Date(s): 1815 - 1936 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. The histories are: 1. The Beginning of the Mission in Fiji (1842-1936) 2. Father J.B. Breheret, 1815-1898

AU PMB MS 454 Title: Correspondence and miscellaneous papers on education Date(s): 1895 - 1929 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. The documents are: 1. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers on education, 1895-98 2. School inspection reports, 1903-08 3. Legislation on schools, 1917-18 4. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers on education, 1910-29

AU PMB MS 455 Title: Reports and correspondence relating to the mission station at Naililili, Rewa Date(s): 1893 - 1905 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm

8

Description: See PMB 432. The documents are: 1. Reports etc. re Naililili, 1893-99 2. 'Rewa: Affaire du subside donne a l'Ecole par la province', 1898-1905

AU PMB MS 456 Title: Correspondence with mission stations at Savusavu and Tunuloa Date(s): 1919 - 1930 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. Correspondence with mission stations at Savusavu and Tunuloa.

AU PMB MS 457 Title: Correspondence with various mission stations Date(s): 1912 - 1930 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. The correspondence is in six files: 1. Delailagi, 1919-30 2. Nabala, 1921-30 3. Naidiri, 1930 4. Naiserelagi (Navunibitu), 1923-30 5. Namosi, 1912-30 6. Natovi, 1924-30

AU PMB MS 459 Title: Correspondence with Government and others re native affairs Date(s): 1883 - 1924 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. Correspondence with Government and others regarding native affairs.

AU PMB MS 460 Title: Miscellaneous (non-local) correspondence of Bishop J. Vidal and Bishop C.J. Nicolas Date(s): 1899 - 1930 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. Correspondence from New Caledonia, Wallis, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Moruroa, Sydney, New Zealand, France, Belgium, Naples.

AU PMB MS 461 Title: Correspondence with various mission stations Date(s): 1920 - 1930 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. The correspondence is in six files: 1. Bemana, 1923-30 2. Sigatoka, 1920-26 3. Joan of Arc School, Sigatoka (Nadroga), 1920-30 4. Namoli, 1922-24 5. Miscellaneous (Sigatoka), 1916-23 6. Solevu, 1926-30

AU PMB MS 462 Title: Correspondence re mission work among the Indians of Fiji Date(s): 1909 - 1919 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. Correspondence re mission work among the Indians of Fiji.

AU PMB MS 463 Title: Miscellaneous unpublished items

9

Date(s): c.1894 - 1928 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. The items are: 1. Accounts of Fijian secret societies - le 'vaki ou nanaga'; les Kalou Vatu; le keibuca; les kai nakauvadra. (These are contained in a small exercise book and are thought to have been written by Father J. de Marzan, SM.) 2. Brief histories of Fiji mission stations - Tailevu, Tunuloa, Naiserelagi, Suva, Ba and Yasawa, Kadavu, Lomary, Rotuma - and lists of principal dates. 3. A 'sketch' entitled 'Slavery in Fiji'. It is dated Levuka, Fiji, 22 June 1894 and is said to be a translation of a German 'communication' in the Geographische Gesellshaft (sic) of 1895. The author states that he had spent 23 years in the Pacific, 'the last twelve of them in Fiji': 4. Correspondence, 1903, concerning alleged Bible burnings: 5. Church statistics, 1900-19.: 6. Reports on native clergy, 1921-22.: 7. An abridged Fijian grammar - 'Petit abrege de Grammaire Vitienne'. It bears the name of Father A. Deniau, SM, but does not appear to be in his handwriting: 8. Letters re medical matters to and from Bishop J. Vidal, 1906-10, and Bishop C.J. Nicolas, 1924-28.: 9. An account of a visit to Lau by Father J.M. Oreve, SM, dated Suva, 30 August 1923: 10. 'Notes concernant l'Imprimerie', by Father P. Clement, SM, dated 'retraite 1922': 11. Papers relating to Father J.V. Pujebet's removal from Nukunau Island, Gilbert Islands, 1917-1919.

AU PMB MS 464 Title: Correspondence with Marist Sisters Date(s): 1892 - 1930 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The Marist Sisters arrived in Levuka from Lyons, France, on 28 March 1892. See also PMB 432.

AU PMB MS 465 Title: Correspondence with the Petites Soeurs Date(s): 1893 - 1930 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The Petites Soeurs, first known as 'Vukevuke' or 'helpers', are now (1972) known as Sisters of Our Lady of Nazareth (SOLN). See also PMB 432. Most of the correspondence is in Fijian.

AU PMB MS 466 Title: Correspondence and miscellaneous papers Date(s): 1907 - 1926 (Creation) Helliet Father Y.M. Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. The papers include accounts of Indians and of part-Europeans in Fiji by Father Helliet and other priests.

AU PMB MS 467 Title: Miscellaneous papers, chiefly historical Date(s): c.1926 - 1970 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. The papers are: 1. Papers of Father L. Soubeyran, SM (a) What the Catholic missionaries and Church have done to evangelise the Indians in Fiji (1970) (b) The Fathers in the Past (1970) (c) Sixty Years in the Missions of Fiji and Rotuma (1965) (d) Translation of a paper on Rotuman Games written by Father J.B. Chevreuil, SM. (With the original version) (1967). 2. The Catholic Church in the Fiji Islands (c.1970) 3. History of Loreto (c.1970) 4. History of the Catholic Mission at Wairiki (1964) 5. Le Reverend Pere Jules Delahaye

10

6. The Seventh-day Adventists, by Father Y.M. Helliet, SM, (1955) 7. Rapport sur le terrain Na Somo Levu, Ile Vuaki, Yasawa, by Father Y.M. Helliet, SM (1926) 8. Rapport sur 'l'Histoire Religieuse de Fiji' par Mgr Blanc (author unknown) 9. Le Rev. Pere Pierre Marie Jouny, SM, l'Apotre des Niua 10. Marist Fathers who have worked in Fiji (several lists) 11. Historique de la Stations de Tunuloa 12. 'An Unusual Priest' (Father Claudius Lurkhur), by Father Denis Fitzpatrick

AU PMB MS 468 Title: Minutes of council meetings Date(s): 2 October 1887 - 28 December 1930 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: See PMB 432. Minutes of council meetings.

AU PMB MS 635 Title: Miscellaneous papers relating to Tonga and Fiji Date(s): 1900 - 1971 (Creation) Gribble, Rev. Cecil F. Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Gribble, a Methodist minister, went to Tonga in 1939 as principal of Tupou College. During World War II, the Tongan Government seconded him as Director of Education. Four years after his return to Australia in 1945, he became general secretary for Overseas Missions of the Methodist Church of Australasia. He retired in 1970. The papers include a complete list, with biographical notes, of Methodist missionaries to Tonga to 1931; ABC Guest of Honour Broadcast by Prince Tungi, 4 May 1950; Commemorative address on Walter Lawry (1793-1859), 18 April 1971; A review of Tongan Grammar by C.M. Churchward (published in 1953); Koe Havea, 1941; Copy of The Missionary Review for August 1947 covering the Tongan Royal Weddings; An Historical Overview of Tonga by H. Taylor; Articles on Tonga's economic development; Methodist Missions in the South Seas 1821-1909 by Rev. B. Danks; Report of Commission on the Native Church, 1923; Brown Faces. A Missionary Book for Methodist Boys and Girls by J.W. Burton; Articles on the Methodist Church in Fiji, including the Report of the Board of Missions Deputation of 1900 and the Indian Church of Suva; Articles by Gribble including Tonga - A Century of Achievement and The Rim of the Pacific .

AU PMB MS 951 Title: Correspondence with sister organisations Date(s): 1925 - 1956 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Correspondence of the Methodist missionary Society of New Zealand with sister organisations in: Fiji, 1925-56 Tonga, 1943-52 Papua New Guinea, 1953

AU PMB MS 1039 Title: The Fison Project - Letterbooks, Vols 1-7 Date(s): 1867 - 1883 (Creation) Extent and medium: 4 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: Lorimer Fison (1832-1909), clergyman and anthropologist, was born in Suffolk, England. He served with the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in Fiji from 1863 to 1884. For much of that period he was Principal of the Training Institution for Natives at Navuloa. This is the first of a series of microfilms The Fison Project was designed to bring together on microfilm the various Fison collections, relating to the Pacific, held in Australian libraries. Fison also wrote extensively about Australian Aboriginal customs but, because of the Bureau's specialised areas of interest, these writings have not been included in

11

the Project. A list of Fison materials in Australia not copied, but made known to the Bureau, has been provided on each reel. See also PMB 1040, 1041, 1042, 1043, 1044. Reel 1: Letterbook Vol.1, 1 July 1868 to 30 July 1869. Reel 2: Letterbook Vol.2, 10 August 1869 to 25 October 1870; Letterbook Vol.3, 27? October 1870 to March 1873. Reel 3: Letterbook Vol.4, 16 April 1873 to 26 February 1876; Letterbook Vol.5, 26 February 1876 to 1 November 1877. Reel 4: Letterbook Vol.6, November 1877 to 3 August 1879 (over a third of this volume contains texts of sermons); Letterbook Vol.7, 3 August 1879 to 5 May 1883.

AU PMB MS 1040 Title: The Fison Project - Various manuscripts and papers and press copy book: Sermons, articles and letters Date(s): 1867 - 1873 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please see PMB 1039 for full entry. Item 1: Manuscript by Fison entitled Old Fiji containing notes on Fijian history and customs with descriptive anecdotes. n.d. 82pp. Item 2: Manuscripts in unidentified handwriting of biographical essays about South Seas missionary martyrs. 68ff, as follows: A - Massacre of the Rev. Thomas Baker and party on Sunday 21st July 1867 at Gag dela Vatu Na Vosa, Viti Levu, Fiji. After 1867. 39ff. A(i) - Incomplete account in one handwriting, 20ff. A(ii) - Complete account in two other hands, apparently the version of a planter and store owner who lived at the Rewa River mouth at the time of the massacre. 19ff. B - John Coleridge Patteson. After 1871. 14ff. C - Rev. John Williams. After 1889. 15ff. Items 1 and 2 are held by the Dixson Library. Item 3: Press copy book, Sermons, articles and letters, 1867 - 1873, held by the Mitchell Library

AU PMB MS 1042 Title: Articles, letters and miscellaneous papers Date(s): 1873 - 1907 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm; Digital PDF Description: Please see PMB 1039 for full entry. This collection (MS 7080, Box 3) consists of the following: FOLDER 1 - Letters to Lorimer Fison. Items 9-11; George Taplin, 1873: Meru tribe kinship, Murray River. Items 12-19; R.H. Codrington, 1892-3: New Guinea and Melanesian languages. Items 20-22; H.M. Jackson, Government House, Suva, 1903. Items 23-24; Wm MacGregor, 1888: New Guinea ethnology and languages. Items 25-37; Basil Thomson, 1893: Fijian culture; recall to London. Items 38-39; A.W. Howitt, 1905. Items 40-41; J.G. Frazer, 1907: Frazer compliments Spencer and Gillen on their work and discusses his plans for an anthropological fund at Liverpool, UK. Items 42-48; W. Skeat, 1903-4: Fiji/Tonga linguistics; publication of Fison article. Items 49-59; J.B. Thurston, 1872 (incomplete) and 1893. Items 60-61; W.E. Bennett, 1903. Items 62-63; S.E. Peal (incomplete). Items 64-65; Letter from J. Hall, Fison's secretary, to J.G. Frazer, 1905. Item 65a; List of distinguished acquaintances. FOLDER 2 - Correspondence with J.G. Frazer. Item 66-104; 1896-1907: mostly anthropology of Australian aborigines. FOLDER 3 - Notes and Tables. Item 105-167; Mostly in Fison's hand, includes 7 returned questionnaires. Principal subjects are kinship and lanaguage among the Australian aborigines, but there is also material on Dobu (New Guinea) and Fijian languages. Includes kinship tables for tribes in the Murray River, SA; Murray/Darling; Yorke Peninsula, SA; Omeo & Gippsland, VIC; Jervis Bay, NSW areas. FOLDER 4 – Articles. Item 168-208; A signed mss copy of 'Land tenure in Fiji'. Item 209-224; Fellows, Rev. S.B. 'Grammar of the Pannieti dialect, British New Guinea, together with comprehensive vocabulary'. Proof copy. Item 225-233; Sketch maps (2) and comparative lists of the vocabulary of New Guinea dialects: Saibai, Uroi, Baribara, Kaura, Moi, Wapi, Ari, Moipalo, Kubilo, A'loto, Bau, Gaiga, Kaipu, Kaurarega, Gudang. Item 234; Note (incomplete) on numerals of New Guinea dialects. Item 235; A comparative vocabulary of New Guinea languages. FOLDER 5 - Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, vol. X, February 1874. Item 236; On pp.154-179 is Fison's article 'The classificatory system of kinship'. The volume bears the signature of E.M. Curr and his handwritten critique of Fison's article. Also marked in the table of contents is an article, on pp. 100-105, 'Abstract of a paper on aboriginal art in Australasia, Polynesia, and Oceania, and its decay' by H.E. Pain.

AU PMB MS 1044 Title: Linguistic material and correspondence on local customs

12

Date(s): 1880 - 1894 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Please see PMB 1039 for full entry. The contents are in two parts. Part I - A specimen of Fijian dialects, collected and arranged by Lorimer Fison, M.A. (Joint author of 'Kamilaroi & Kurnai'). The volume contains 1. MS of Fijian Dialects, 36pp; 2. Letters from Fison on the subject, 20pp; 3. 2 German leaflets (Albert S. Gatschet) on the subject, 193-208 & 263-276; 4. A cutting from The Nation reviewing a book on The Melanesia Languages, 3pp. Part II - In the papers of S.E. Peal 2 letters from Fison: 12 September 1893, Melbourne, Comments on communal barracks paper and similar customs elsewhere; 21 June 1894, Oruba, At sea, Request for Naga equivalents for attached list of words; pre-marital sex and other customs in Fiji; projecting house posts. Typed transcripts of these letters have also been copied

AU PMB MS 1062 Title: Archives Date(s): 1855-1939 (Creation) Extent and medium: 22 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: In 1855, following the formation of the Australasian Connexion of the Methodist Church, general jurisdiction and administration of the Methodist missions in the Friendly Islands, Fiji and New Zealand was transferred to the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia which subsequently also took control of Methodist activities in Samoa, New Guinea, Papua, the Solomon Islands and North Australia. New Zealand became a separate Conference in 1910 and in 1922 it took over responsibility for the Solomons Islands District. In 1926 Tonga was made an independent Conference in affiliation with the Australasian General Conference. Mission Board minutes, 1865-97 (3 vols) (MOM 1-3) (1 reel) Mission District minutes, 1855-1914 (30 vols) (MOM 5-26, 174-81) (17 reels) Executive Committee minutes, 1898-1939 (4 vols) (MOM 210-12,276) (3 reels) Sydney Synod minutes, 1906 (1 vol) (MOM 4); Port Darwin Circuit quarterly minutes, 1873-99 (1 vol) (MOM 27) (1 reel) Minutes of the Victorian Section of the General Conference, Tonga Committee, 1888-92 (1 vol) (MOM 28). See reel list for further details

AU PMB MS 1063 Title: Archives Date(s): 1898-1943 (Creation) Extent and medium: 36 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: In 1855, following the formation of the Australasian Connexion of the Methodist Church, general jurisdiction and administration of the Methodist missions in the Friendly Islands, Fiji and New Zealand was transferred to the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia which subsequently also took control of Methodist activities in Samoa, New Guinea, Papua, the Solomon Islands and North Australia. New Zealand became a separate Conference in 1910 and in 1922 it took over responsibility for the Solomons Islands District. In 1926 Tonga was made an independent Conference in affiliation with the Australasian General Conference. Mission District minutes, 1915-1943 (29 vols) (MOM 182-202, 268-75) (29 reels) Mission Board minutes, 1898-1934 (7 vols) (MOM 203-9) (7 reels). See Finding aids for details.

AU PMB MS 1072 Title: Papers Date(s): 1946-87 (Creation) Tuilovoni, Setareki, 1916-1983 Extent and medium: 3 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: Born on the island of Matuku in the Lau group, Fiji, Tuilovoni trained as a teacher in Suva in the 1930s. After teaching at the Methodist Primary School on Bau, he decided to become a Methodist minister. From 1947 to 1950 he studied at Drew Theological Seminary in New Jersey where he gained a Bachelor of Divinity. On his return to Fiji he was appointed Principal of the Bible School at Davuilevu and Director of the

13

Young People's Department of the Methodist Church, a position he held until 1967. Between 1961 and 1963 he studied for a Master of Sacred Theology at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. In 1964 he was appointed first President of the newly created Fiji Methodist Conference. Upon the completion of his Presidential term in 1967 he was appointed Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches, a position he held until 1972 when he was reappointed as President of the Methodist Conference. In 1978 he moved to Sydney to serve as Associate State Secretary for the Board of Missions in the New South Wales Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia. He ended his career doing parish work in Wellington, New South Wales. He died in Sydney in 1983. The Tuilovini papers, which are written in a mixture of English and Fijian, were arranged by Tevita Baleiwaqa in 1987 into the following series: Reel 1: 1. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1947-75 2. Correspondence re Ecumenism, 1961-68 3. Academic transcript, Drew University, NJ 4. Writings (roneoed and printed), 1948-63 5. Methodist Young People's Department, 1951-63 6. Correspondence and other papers re Wesley F. Pigeon and Inez Hames, 1946-50 and 1982-87 Reel 2: 7. Church and Unity in the South Pacific, STM Thesis, Union Theological Seminary, 1962 8. Typescript sermons, 1952-83 (bulk 1969-83) 9. Church music and hymns, 1960s-82 (bulk1978-82) 10. Notebooks (2), 1971-72 11. Diary, 1975 Reel 3: 12. Very detailed diary, 1982 (in Fijian) 13. Correspondence and printed material re Setareki's time in Australia, 1979-83 14. Devotional material for Sydney housegroups (roneoed and typescript), c.1980-82 15. Transcripts of oral history interviews about Tuilovoni conducted by Tevita Baleiwaqa, 1986 16. Setareki Akeai Tuilovoni and the Young People's Department of the Methodist Church in Fiji (1951-1967) by Tevita Baleiwaqa, Bachelor of Divininty Thesis, Pacific Theological College, 1987

AU PMB MS 1074 Title: Papers Date(s): 1913-75 (Creation) Steadman, Hilda Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Hilda Steadman was the wife of Reverend W. Rex Steadman, who worked as a Methodist Minister in Fiji beteen 1912 and 1940. During their time in Fiji the Steadmans devoted themselves to working with the Indian community. Between 1912 and 1920 they were based at Navua, from 1920 to 1926 they ran the Indian Mission Church and Boys' School at Toorak (Suva), during 1926/27 they worked at Lautoka, after which they returned to Australia for five years. In 1932 they returned to Fiji and spent the next eight years at Rewa organising the Methodist Indian educational system. During her time in Fiji Hilda founded the Indian Women's Benevolent Society. In 1940 the Steadmans retired to South Australia. The papers include the following items: - letter by Hilda to her parents written from Naduri, Vanua Levu, 17/10/20 (10p.) - newspaper clippings, 1920-41 - Indian work in Fiji, mss, 6p. - Navua, 1912, typescript, 3p. - The Rewa sojourn, t/s, 3p. - Medical work in Fiji, mss, 6p. - Welfare work among the women of Fiji, t/s, 5p. - Reminiscences of Mrs A.J. Small (wife of Methodist Missionary in Fiji) t/s 25p. - obituary for Mrs Steadman, 1975

14

- 214 photographs, 1913-40, depicting the following the work of the Methodist Church in Fijistudents,

colleagues, friends and family of the Steadmansmembers of the Indo-Fijian communityscenes in various

parts of FijiMost photographs are identified.

AU PMB MS 1084 Title: Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Theology theses Date(s): 1968-1993 (Creation) Extent and medium: 33 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: The Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji, is an ecumenical institution founded in 1966 to assist in providing the Pacific churches a highly trained indigenous ministry. The College established an international reputation for quality theological education, particularly in the three core areas of Biblical Studies, Theology and History of Christianity. In 1987 in began a Master of Theology programmme in Pacific Church History. The thesis is an integral part of the PTC's Bachelor of Divinity and master of Theology programmes. Approximately 294 theses filmed in chronological order. Many systematically apply detailed local knowledge to topics covering a broad range of cultural, social and political matters in the Pacific Islands. See reel list for further details

AU PMB MS 1138 Title: Annual synod minutes and journals, 1854-1945, together with miscellaneous correspondence, 1869-1899. Date(s): 1854-1945 (Creation) Methodist Mission, Fiji Extent and medium: 4 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: Methodist affairs in Fiji were administered by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in London until the formation of the Australasian Connexion of the Methodist Church in 1855 when Fiji became a District of the New South Wales Conference of the Australasian Methodist Church. The Fiji District was administered by the Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia situated in Sydney and by the District Chairman whose office was in Bau till 1903 and in Suva after that date. In 1964 the Methodist Church of Fiji achieved independence from its parent body in Australia. See also PMB 1062, 1063 and 1093. Minutes and journals of the Fiji District Annual Synod, 1854-1945. Fiji District correspondence, 1869-1899. See reel list for further details.

AU PMB MS 1185 Title: Diary, journal and letters (Wesleyan Mission in Fiji) Date(s): 1838-1846 (Creation) Jaggar, Rev. Thomas James Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Rev. Thomas Jaggar was a Wesleyan Missionary in Fiji from 1839 till 1843. He lived at Rewa during a very significant time in Fiji’s post-contact history, including the years when the protracted war between Rewa and Bau broke out in 1842. He was probably the only European living among the Rewa people between 1839 and 1843, who kept a detailed record of events. He understood the language and he was in frequent communication with the chiefs. Journal, 1838-1843 Frame Nos.1-241 Private [spiritual] journal, 1845 Frame Nos. 242-319 Letters to Thomas Jagger, 1838-1846 Frame Nos.320-351 One of the most valuable original items in the Methodist Church archives held in the Fiji National Archives is the diary of Rev. Thomas Jaggar, commencing when he arrived at Lakeba on 22 December 1838 and continuing on to his residence at Rewa from 12 July 1839 to the abrupt concluding entry on 26 March 1843. Jaggar’s great great granddaughter, Esther Keesing-Styles, together with her son William, edited and published the diary in 1988 [ Unto the Perfect Day: The Journal of Thomas James Jaggar, 1838-1845, Auckland, Solent Publishing 1988]. Keesing-Styles included with the Rewa diary a second private and mainly spiritual diary of Thomas Jaggar, kept from 30 April to 30 September 1845; this diary had not been part of the original Methodist Collection but has now been added to it together with a folder of letters written to Jaggar between 1838 and 1846.

15

(From Andrew Thornley’s report, Pambu, Vol.5, No.12, May 2001.)

AU PMB MS 1194 Title: Struts and Frets His Hour, 1987. The Autobiography of the Australian and New Zealand Secretary of the London Missionary Society, 1945-1970. Date(s): 1987 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 Reels; 35mm microfilm Description: Reverend Norman F. Cocks was born in Harrow, Middlesex, UK. He went to Hackney and New College, London, and was ordained at Skinner St. Congregational Church, Poole, Dorset on 25 November 1934. His Pastorates in England were Poole, 1934-1940, and High Cross Tottenham, 1940-45. Rev Cocks was then appointed to the post of Australian and New Zealand Secretary of the London Missionary Society, 1945-1970. He transferred to the Anglican Church in Tasmania, was ordained Deacon in St. David's Hobart on 19 October 1970, and was subsequently ordained as an Anglican priest. His portrait is in the "LMS Chronicles" of February 1945 and June 1947. Volumes 2-5, pp.150-651, of the autobiography of Rev. Norman F. Cocks completed in Hobart in 1987. Ts., photocopy. Chapter headings as follows. Vol.2, pp.150-299: So to London; A change of Wind; Outward Bound; Australian Landfall; Over the Tasman; Papua Invitation; Trial and Reunion; Eleanor Rivett; Traveller’s Days [1947]; More Gleanings from 1947; World Council of Churches – Amsterdam 1948; The Naming of the Ship ‘John Williams VI’; Visit of ‘John Williams VI’; Our New Home and Office; To Fiji and Samoa. Vol.3, pp.299-450: Home Again; 1951 and Britain Again; ‘Passage to India’; ‘Home from the Sea’; India – Australia – Papua; Royal Flush; Island Shadows; The Dickens Fellowship; Another Papuan Journey; A Year of Anticipation; South African Pilgrimage; ‘The Golden Route’ and the Cape; ‘Home’ Again; La Suisse; Transatlantic. Vol.4, pp.450-550: Across the North American Continent; Time Passes; 1961 – An Eventful Year; 1962 – So Many Changes; Port Moresby 21 November 1962; Pleasant Island Again; Churchwise; Another Year; 1965 Constant Movement; Papua ‘The Ecumenical Crisis’; The Wanderers Way. Vol.5, pp.550-651: What is ‘Normality’?; Papua Again; Night Flight to Independence; ‘The Gilbert and Sullivan Colony’; The Penultimate Year – 1969; Farewell Papua New Guinea.

AU PMB MS 1211 Title: Archives Date(s): 1963-2000 (Creation) Young Women’s Christian Association of Fiji Extent and medium: 2 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: The YWCA of Fiji was established in Suva in 1961. Anne Walker and Ruth Lechte arrived in 1962 from Melbourne to set up a YWCA kindergarten and youth program. They moved to the upstairs section of the old Suva Town Hall in 1963. By 1966 the Y was operating clubs and classes, sports and recreations as well as three kindergartens. Amelia Rokotuivuna opened a Branch in Lautoka in 1968. In 1970 tenders were let for a new centre, financed by overseas funds. The five-storey building was constructed on land next to Sukuna Park. A new specialised kindergarten was opened in Des Voeux Road in 1972. Anne Walker became Youth Director and National Programme Coordinator. Ruth Lechte was Executive Director of the YWCA of Fiji till May 1973 when she was succeeded by Amelia Roktuivuna. Ms Rokotuivuna is now President of the YWCA of Fiji. Constitution, regulations, bye-laws and other administrative and policy papers, 1978; National Council minutes, Jan 1979-Mar 1993; National Executive Committee minutes, Dec 1978-Jun 1994; Programme Committee, Aug 1963-May 1984 (gaps); Public Affairs Committee minutes, 1974-1984; Pre-School Committee minutes, 1975-1981; Youth Club minutes, 1965; annual report 1973; Convention reports, 1976 & 1990; press cuttings, 1965-2000; displat book, “Role of Women in Fiji”, 1968-1970; printed material on construction of headquarters in Suva. See Finding aids for details.

AU PMB MS 1277 Title: World YWCA, South Pacific Area, Ofis Blong Ol Meri, circulars, leaflets, reports, newsletters and posters Date(s): 1982-1991 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm

16

Description: The World YWCA started a South Pacific Project in 1974 with Ruth Lechte as staff person. In 1982, Ofis Blong Ol Meri was established with Diane Goodwillie as Co-ordinator. In May 1983, Edith Enoga from Papua New Guinea was appointed as Communications Development Officer. Ofis Blong Ol Meri was a project to serve the needs of women in the Pacific Islands (especially PNG, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, New Caledonia, Kiribati and Tuvalu). It worked mainly with non-government women’s groups. (From leaflet, n.d., 1983?) Circulars, leaflets and reports, 1982-1987; Newsletters, 1983-1991; Photographs; Calendars, 1984-1988; Related Publications, 1994-2002. See Finding aids for details.

AU PMB MS 1297 Title: Diary kept at the Methodist Mission in New Britain and the Duke of York Islands, New Guinea, and related papers Date(s): Jul 1912-Mar 1913 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Sr Rhoda Ransom, born Maryborough Victoria, 29 Dec 1887, worked as a nursing sister with the Methodist Mission in New Guinea from July 1912 until March 1913 when she returned to Australia suffering from malaria and rheumatic problems in her legs. Contents related to Fiji are: • Postcards (36 items), some annotated by Sr. Rhoda: Methodist Mission in New Guinea and Fiji, together with some German New Guinea postcards. See Finding aids for details. See also PMB Photo 14.

AU PMB MS 1325 Title: Reports and photographs from the Methodist Mission in Fiji Date(s): 1929-1930 (Creation) Rev. Lewis E. Barnard Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The reports and photographs describe missionary work carried out by Rev Barnard in Fiji 1929-1930, and the work of his wife, Winifred Barnard, who ran health clinics. • Lewis E. Barnard, “Experiences by Land and Sea, August 30, 1929 – Feb. 11, 1930”, Nabouwalu, Fiji, Feb. 1930, Ts., 21pp. • Lewis E. Barnard, “The Sixty Mile Tramp. Bua Circuit, Fiji. Feb. 1930”, Ts., 9pp. • 2nd copy: Lewis E. Barnard, “A Sixty Mile Tramp. On tour of inspection of work in Bua Circuit, Fiji. Feb. 1930”, Ts., 9pp. • Menu, SS Sonoma, en route from San Francisco to Sydney, 3 Mar 1930. • Photograph album, Sydney and Fiji, 1929-1930. Photographs include: George Brown Methodist Missionary Training College, Sydney; Ah Tam, Health Centre Store; Lautoka, 1929; Davne; Nabouealu Mission House; On the Moraki ; Suva; W. Barnard, first white woman here – Narawai; Peni; Josesi; Ratu George, Willie, Alice; Moraki at Noumea. • Photograph album. Damaged. Photographs include: On the Moraki; Lautoka Mosque; Win & Lewis; Adi Keva; Nabouwalu; Kabouwalu; Mission House, Nabouwalu; Nabouwalu village; Nabouwalu; View from front door; Mission House – Kolino, Gorieka & Salosi; Native Ministers, Nabouwalu and welcome to us; front verandah, Ratu George and family; Scouts; Santa; Baby Health Centre; Baby health Nabouwalu; Ah Tam; Baby Health Centre; Adi Lagi Lagi & Alice Brown, Toganivalu; Peni, Israli, Sukdao; Scouts; Marioni & Beni Keli; Narawai – 1st white woman there; after the hurricaine; Avenue of mango tress leading to the Mission House; after the wreck; Manasa who gave me the big conch shell; Mecki – Penni; Israle, Joni, Sukdao; Nabouwalu; Joe & Willy; L.E.B.; On Raicakacaka (tour of work): Williami; Luki and family – Native Minister; Esau & Maciea; Esau – Native Minister’s House (bed I slept on); On Raicakacaka; Guard of honour for us; Bua; SS Tui Labasa; Davilevu Fiji; Suva Hospital 1929-30; The Wharf, Suva; Bau; Nabouwalu Post Master and family. See also PMB Photo 23, BARNARD, Rev. Lewis E., Photographs from the Methodist Mission in Fiji, 1929-1930.

17

AU PMB MS 1382 Title: Diary, correspondence and miscellaneous papers of missionary service on the Island of Tangoa, New Hebrides (1931-33). Date(s): 1931-1994 (Creation) Extent and medium: 2 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: Diariy and papers of F.J.C. (Frank) and Rita Paton. They were Presbyterian missionaries in Tangoa (Vanuatu) from 1931-1933. Most material relates to Vanuatu but several documents relating to the Pacific Theological College, Fiji, 1970(?). See Finding aids for details.

AU PMB MS 1419 Title: New Hebrides Mission manuscripts from the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand Archives Date(s): 1870-1947 (Creation) Extent and medium: 14 manuscript items consisting of folders of papers. Description: This material largely relates to Vanuatu but item 11 is connected to Fiji. It consists of correspondence relating to the massacre of the crew of the 'Fanny', a labour vessel from Fiji, in retaliation of the kidnapping of women from the island by the crew of the Fanny. Contains: 4 letters and report. John B. Thurston to Rev. Mills 20/8/1871; Minute of the Synod of New Hebrides Meeting relating to the incident, 11/7/1871; copy of a letter signed by the Rev. Inglis and Paton to the Rev. Dr. Steele, 19/8/71; part of a letter from Philip Thorpe, nd. PCANZ Archive Item number: NZ-469-1-3; 2000/0072/3. Item 1 of 'Milne, Peter Reverend - correspondence' microfilmed at PMB MS 197.

Printed Document Series Titles

AU PMB DOC 43 Title: South Sea Memories. Salt Lake City: Desert News Press. Date(s): 1919 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: The author was a missionary to Samoa for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The book includes observations on life and Latter Day Saints missions in Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti and elsewhere.

AU PMB DOC 199 Title: Ai Tukutuku Vakalotu Suva: Methodist Mission. No.1 (1893) - No.698 (Nov. 1964) Date(s): 1897-1903 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Fijian language periodical, published by the Methodist Church in Suva, Fiji, where it was microfilmed. Quarterly in 1896, became monthly in the mid-1900s. Mitchell Library, Sydney, has 1893-1905 (complete): 1906-15 (impf.): 1937-1950 (impf.): 1951-1964 (complete). No complete runs are known for 1906, 1907 and 1909. Covers articles and news of the Methodist Mission in Fiji, the South Pacific and elsewhere. For later volumes see PMB Doc .200-205. Issues for 1897-1900 (complete): 1901-1903 very incomplete

AU PMB DOC 200 Title: Ai Tukutuku Vakalotu Suva: Methodist Mission. No.1 (1893) - No.698 (Nov. 1964) Date(s): 1908-1917 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: For details see PMB Doc 199. 1908-1917 impf. Lacks issues 38-50 (Jan. 1909 - Jan. 1910): 121-32 (Jan. - Dec. 1916)

AU PMB DOC 201 Title: Ai Tukutuku Vakalotu Suva: Methodist Mission. No.1 (1893) - No.698 (Nov. 1964) Date(s): 1917-1925 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm

18

Description: For details see PMB Doc 199. Issues for 1917-1925. Lacks issues 192-202 (Jan. - Nov. 1922): No. 206 (Jan. 1923):No. 208 (May 1923):No. 212 (Sep. 1923:Nos 214-215 (Nov. - Dec. 1923)

AU PMB DOC 202 Title: Ai Tukutuku Vakalotu Suva: Methodist Mission. No.1 (1893) - No.698 (Nov. 1964) Date(s): 1926-1930 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: For details see PMB Doc 199. Issues for 1926 - Aug. 1930.

AU PMB DOC 203 Title: Ai Tukutuku Vakalotu Suva: Methodist Mission. No.1 (1893) - No.698 (Nov. 1964) Date(s): September 1930 - May 1935 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: For details see PMB Doc 199. Issues for September 1930 - May 1935.

AU PMB DOC 204 Title: Ai Tukutuku Vakalotu Suva: Methodist Mission. No.1 (1893) - No.698 (Nov. 1964) Date(s): June - December 1935 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: For details see PMB Doc 199. Issues for June - December 1935.

AU PMB DOC 205 Title: Ai Tukutuku Vakalotu Suva: Methodist Mission. No.1 (1893) - No.698 (Nov. 1964) Date(s): March 1937 - March 1960 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: For details see PMB Doc 199. Issues for March 1937 - March 1960. Following issues only: No.369 (March 1937): No.547 (Oct. 1952): No.583 (Jan. 1956): No.633 (March 1960).

AU PMB DOC 208 Title: Vidal Julian Bishop Pastoral and circular letters. Suva?: the Mission?. Nos 1-75, 1888 - 1918 Date(s): 29 May 1888 - 12 November 1918 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Correspondence from Bishop Julian Vidal of the Roman Catholic Mission in Fiji. Most of the letters were printed on the Mission press

AU PMB DOC 209 Title: Nicolas Charles Joseph Bishop circular letters. Suva?: the Mission?. Nos 1-54, 30 Dec. 1918 - 20 June 1941 Date(s): 30 December 1918 - 20 June 1941 (Creation) Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Correspondence from Bishop Nicholas of the Roman Catholic Mission in Fiji. Most of the letters were printed on the Mission press. Lacks No.15 which does not seem to have been issued.

AU PMB DOC 210 Title: Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Bulletin du vicariat. Suva: the Mission. Date(s): June 1891 - August 1894 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Lacks: Bulletin 5 (printed but not issued): Bulletin 7 (not issued). There are 2 issues numbered 9.

AU PMB DOC 211 Title: Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Sacred Heart Cathedral Gazette. Suva: Roman Catholic Vicariate. Vol 1(1) - Vol 16(12), Aug. 1936 - July 1952 Date(s): August 1936 - July 1952 (Creation) Roman Catholic Mission Fiji Extent and medium: 2 reels; 35mm microfilm

19

Description: Official organ of the Roman Catholic Vicariate in Fiji. Reel 1: Vol 1(1) - Vol 8(12); Reel 2: Vol 9(1) - Vol 16(12)

AU PMB DOC 213 Title: Miscellaneous printed documents relating to Fiji and other Pacific Islands Date(s): 1888 - 1938 (Creation) Miscellaneous Printed Documents Relating to Fiji and Other Pacific Islands Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: 1. 'Le Sacre de Mgr Julien Vidal' par un Temoin Oculaire (Lyons, 1888): 2. 'Trois Mois a Fidji' by Father D. Duclos, SM (Loreto, Fiji (1904)): 3. 'Quarante Quatre Ans a Fidji' (Loreto, Fiji (1926)): 4. 'Correspondence between His Excellency George William des Voeux, CMG, &c. &c., Lieutenant-Governor of Fiji and the Trustees of (Methodist) Mission Lands in Fiji (printed 'for private circulation only' n.d.): 5. 'Elephantiasis and Filariasis in Fiji' by Basil M. Wilson, MB (Levuka, 1909): 6. 'Fiji for the Fijians: A Protest and a Plea', by G.L. Barrow (Korelavu, Fiji, October 1921): 7. 'Fiji for the Fijians: A Further Appeal,' by G.L. Barrow (?, November 1922): 8. 'Regles du Savoir-Vivre chez les Fijiens de Kadavu', by Father R.-L. Jarre, SM (Extract from the 'Revue d'Histoire des Missions', September 1938): 9. 'Fiji Tourist Gazette', vol.4, no.31 (Suva, July 1928): 10. 'The Truth About Samoa', by O.F. Nelson (Auckland, 1928): 11. 'Kava and Kava Drinking', by Father Joseph R. Deihl, SM (Article in 'Primitive Man', the quarterly bulletin of the Catholic Anthropological Conference, vol.5, no.4, October 1932): 12. 'Apercu sur la Religion des Indigenes de l'Ile Malo, Nouvelle Hebrides', (Extract from 'l'Echo de la France Catholique', St Louis, 9 December 1893 and 3 February 1894): 13. 'Memorandum du Modus Vivendi conclu avec les Autorites du Gouvernement Anglais' (Suva, 1904) (Concerns the Gilbert Islands): 14. 'Lettre du Vicaire Apostolique des Nouvelles-Hebrides aux Missionaires, Pretres, Freres et Soeurs, a l'Occasion du 25th Anniversaire de la Consitution de la Mission' (Vila, 1926). [This material is held in the Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Office, Suva, Fiji]

AU PMB DOC 392 Title: Contact: Fiji's Catholic Newspaper Date(s): 10 November 1974 - 30 December 1984 (Creation) Contact: Fiji's Catholic Newspaper Extent and medium: 4 reels; 35mm microfilm Description: Reel 1: 10 November 1974 - 24 September 1978 Reel 2: 1 October 1978 - 27 July 1980 Reel 3: 4 January 1981 - 26 December 1982 Reel 4: 2 January 1983 - 30 December 1984 Lacks issues for August - December 1980

AU PMB DOC 408 Title: Collection of pamphlets relating to the Methodist Church in Fiji Date(s): 1878-1970 (Creation) Gribble, Rev. Cecil F. Extent and medium: 1 reel; 35mm microfilm Description: Cecil Gribble (born 1903) was a Methodist missionary and Director of Education in Tonga, 1943-46. He was General Secretary of the Methodist Overseas Mission from 1949 until his retirement in 1970. Rev. Gribble donated this collection of pamphlets to the Pacific Theological College Library. Collection of 17 rare pamphlets by various authors relating to the work of the Methodist Church in Fiji. 13 of the pamphlets were published between 1900 and 1909, with many of these relating to the controversial issue of lay representation in the Fiji District Synod of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference of Australasia. A detailed inventory of the pamphlets, together with summary notes prepared by John Garrett is available.

20

PMB Photograph collections

AU PMB PHOTO 8 Title: Photographs from the Tongan Papers of Reverend Shirley W. Baker and Beatrice Baker Date(s): 1860-1890 (Creation) Extent and medium: 35 photographs, digitized. Description: Photographs relating to Tonga from the papers of Reverend Shirley W. Baker and Beatrice Baker. Photograph 3 relates to Fiji and depicts ‘Cakobau, King of Fiji’, photographed by F.H. Dufty. The Reverend Shirley Waldemar Baker (1836-1903) was an English Wesleyan missionary who arrived in Tonga from Australia in 1860. During his stay of more than 30 years, Baker became a close adviser to King Tupou I and, like the King, an active promoter of Tonga’s independence in the face of European colonial expansion in the south Pacific. Baker’s many disputes with other Europeans in Tonga, most notably with his fellow missionary James Moulton, and especially with the British government officials in Fiji and elsewhere, generated a degree of controversy unique among 19th-century missionaries working in the Pacific. His metamorphosis into a politician culminated in his appointment as Premier of Tonga. (John Spurway, ‘Baker Papers’, Journal of Pacific History, 38:2, 2003.) These papers of Rev. Shirley and Beatrice Baker were bequeathed to the Mitchell Library by Dorothy Crozier along with her own research papers. They were transferred from the Mitchell Library to the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau in August 2001. Lillian Baker, a daughter of Shirley Baker who lived in Ha’apai, gave the papers to Dorothy Crozier in 1950 when Ms Crozier was researching culture change in Tonga under the supervision of Professor Raymond Firth

AU PMB PHOTO 14 Title: The Methodist Mission in New Britain and the Duke of York Islands, New Guinea Date(s): Jul 1912-Mar 1913 (Creation) Extent and medium: 36 post cards and photographs scanned to digital format. Description: This collection of 36 postcards and photographs was amassed by Sr. Rhoda Ransom. Sr Rhoda Ransom was born in Maryborough Victoria, 29 Dec 1887 and worked as a nursing sister with the Methodist Mission in New Guinea from July 1912 until March 1913 when she returned to Australia suffering from malaria and rheumatic problems in her legs. The majority of the collection is postcard prints from the New Guinea Methodist mission series, some with notes and letters on the reverse side. Some of the post card print labels are in German. Images 5, 33, 34 and 35 were taken in Fiji.